EA Sports has recently launched the official reveal trailer of FIFA 21: Feel the Next Level. The new instalment of the FIFA franchise will be released worldwide on 9th October.
EA has teased many new features in the official trailer of FIFA 21. The most notable features are:
At the end of this year, Qualcomm will be launching its next true flagship SoC Snapdragon 875 based on a refined 5nm process from TSMC. Now, we have some details about the next-gen mobile platform.
According to tipster Roland Quandt, the upcoming Snapdragon 875 (SM8350) will adopt the internal codename Lahaina. Well, this name has originated from a city in Maui, one of the seven Hawaiian Islands.
Pretty sure Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 (SM8350) is called "Lahaina" internally. Named after a city on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
Previously we had a leaked roadmap about Qualcomm’s next launches wherein it was said that the chip will be the Snapdragon 875G instead of Snapdragon 875. However, this remains a point of further investigation, but as for now, we can call it Qualcomm SD875.
The Snapdragon 875 will also be a 5G chipset and will come with a “1+3+4” triple cluster architecture that consists of 1 x high-performance Cortex-X1 core + 3 x Cortex-A78 cores + 4 x energy-efficient Cortex-A55 cores.
The ARM Cortex X1 will deliver a 30% higher peak performance than the Cortex-A77 while the new Cortex-A78 CPU provides a 20% sustained performance improvement over Cortex-A77 CPU.
After launching the new Legion 5i in almost all markets, Lenovo is bringing it to India as well, powered by the 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake-H CPUs, these laptops are slim and packs enough power for smooth gaming experience.
This year, Lenovo has launched a bunch of gaming laptops in other markets starting from as low as $660, so the Legion 5i also should aggressively be priced in India. However, Lenovo in the coming days should bring more AMD powered laptops which they have adequate in the US market.
On this Amazon Prime Day, starting from 6th August, the new Lenovo Legion 5I 15-inch variant will be available on Amazon. Here are the specs:
15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS, anti-glare, 250 nits, 120Hz, 45% color gamut
Powered by up to 10th Generation Intel Core i7-10750H Processor
8 GB DDR4 2933MHz RAM
Up to 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD + 512 GB PCIe SSD
Up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB graphics
4 Cell Li-Polymer 60Wh battery
Wi-Fi 6 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth 5.0
Clean and minimalist design that Lenovo is known for
2 x 2W Harman Kardon speaker system
Windows 10 Home
Ports: USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 (always on), 3 x USB-A 3.1 Gen 1, USB-C 3.1 (DisplayPort), HDMI 2.0, RJ45 ethernet, Mic/headphone combo, Kensington lock slot
As per the Amazon page, here are the two variants that has been shown:
So we will see two variants one with Core i5-10300H and the other with Core i7-10750H processor along with NVIDIA GTX 1650 graphics, as this is a budget laptop series. However, maybe in the future we may see GTX 1650 Ti or GTX 1660 Ti GPU variants as well.
Konami has announced that they won’t be releasing a new PES game this year, rather they would give a PES 2021 season update. This is mainly due to the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic that they won’t a releasing a new game this year but has already started working on PES 2022
PES 2021 Season Update will arrive on 15th September.
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Konami said in an official statement: “We have made the decision to launch this year’s PES as a streamlined offering in the form of a ‘season update’.”
“That being said, we are still extremely confident that this year’s game offers fans more than enough thrills to tide them over until our next-gen title is ready for launch.”
“This year also marks a quarter of a century since the very first PES title was released. To commemorate this important milestone, and more importantly, to show our gratitude to you, our loyal fans, we are pleased to announce that this year’s PES will launch at an affordable anniversary price and will also come with several bonuses.”
EA Sports’ FIFA and Konami’s Pro Evolution Series (PES) has always been rivals in the football video game section. Each year during September, they release their new instalments.
This year FIFA 21 will be released worldwide on 9th October, while PES 21 season update will arrive on 15th September.
FIFA always had a greater fanbase than PES but PES has improved a lot in recent times to close the gap. So, once again all the football video game fans will be confused between buying FIFA 21 or PES 21.
So here’s all you need to know about both these games which will help you to decide which game to buy this year!
FIFA 21 vs PES 21: The main comparison for this year!
EA Sports will be releasing their new game FIFA 21: Feel the next level. EA revealed in the official trailer that they are going to introduce some new features like FUT Co-op and an improved career mode among others.
Meanwhile, Konami has announced that they won’t be releasing a new PES game this year, unlike FIFA. PES will be giving a season update. The Coronavirus pandemic is one of the main reasons why Konami couldn’t release a full new game this year. They have decided to give a season update as PES 2021 and has already started working on PES 2022, which they claim to be a game-changer as they will be switching to Unreal engine from Fox engine.
As PES 21 will only be a season update, you can expect almost no changes to gameplay and graphics. Whereas in FIFA 21 there will be a lot of new improvements according to the official trailer.
FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which game has better club and league licenses?
EA Sports’ FIFA has always outbid Konami’s PES in this section. FIFA has around 700 licensed teams across 37 leagues (this number may increase as EA is most likely to include ISL in FIFA 21). They also have UEFA Champions League and Europa League license.
PES has been lagging behind in this section. Among the top European clubs, they only have 5 notable club licenses: LaLiga’s Barcelona, Serie A’s Juventus (this is an exclusive license so FIFA has been using Piemonte Calcio as Juventus’ in-game name since FIFA 20), Premier League’s Manchester United and Arsenal and Bundesliga’s Bayern Munich. PES also has the license for the postponed EURO 2020.
But, overall FIFA has more number of club and league licenses so you can’t see any unreal name other than Piemonte Calcio whereas in PES it is filled with unreal club and league names.
FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which game has the best feature?
PES Master League is the same as FIFA career mode. But PES has improved their Master League over the years. They are way ahead of FIFA’s career mode. People who like playing this mode used to prefer PES over FIFA.
But in the latest official trailer FIFA revealed that they are bringing new improvements to their career mode as in FIFA 20 the users were unhappy from the very first moment with the mode.
FIFA FUT and PES MyClub are online modes. FUT has always been a hit with the fans compared to MyClub. FIFA is also on the verge of introducing Co-op mode in FUT.
FIFA also has Volta, a street football mode. This has been introduced from FIFA 20 and will be available in FIFA 21 as well. Volta gives FIFA a whole new dynamics as PES doesn’t have any other playing mode.
PES has the license for the postponed EURO 2020 while FIFA has the license for UEFA Champions League and Europa League.
FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which game is more affordable?
As FIFA 21 will be a full new game it will come at a greater price than PES. PES is also celebrating their 25th anniversary, so they are giving discounts on the season update.
FIFA 21 standard edition will cost you Rs. 3,999 on Origin or Steam. You can also pre-order FIFA 21 on Amazon.
PES 21 season update will cost you Rs. 800 on Steam. Or if you want to buy any club-specific (Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus or Manchester United) PES 21 it will cost you Rs. 950.
So, PES 21 will be much cheaper than FIFA 21.
FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which game you should buy?
FIFA and PES both have their respective loyal fanbases. But this year, I personally feel it will be better to go with FIFA 21 as it will be a full game rather than just a season update as in case of PES 21.
PES 21 will be almost similar to PES 20 with just new updated squads and a few tweaks here and there. Meanwhile, FIFA 21 has promised to bring new major improvements to the game.
FIFA has also introduced a feature of ‘Dual Entitlement’ – you can buy FIFA 21 on either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One before FIFA 22 and upgrade your game for the equivalent next-generation console (PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X) for free. Whereas PES 21 has not yet announced if PES 21 will be available in the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X. It seems they are working to bring PES 2022 for the next-gen consoles.
But, if you consider the price, PES 21 is much more affordable than FIFA 21. So the price difference may play a part for some people but other than that I would say FIFA will be winning the overall race, at least for this year.
Recently we published an article wherein it was said that the new OnePlus Nord is the best-selling smartphone on Amazon UK, France, and Germany only in pre-orders. Yes, that shows how much people are crazy about OnePlus’s new mid-range smartphone.
OnePlus has a huge fanbase in India and as we know their smartphones had become quite expensive off late. So even if many had the desire to own a “OnePlus device” couldn’t have thought Nord which has a starting price of Rs. 24,999 would actually arrive in India.
Now that a new mid-range smartphone with 5G smartphone has arrived in the country, Indians were believed to be pouncing on it and stats have agreed to the fact as well. The OnePlus Nord’s pre-order starts from 28th July on Amazon India.
The Snapdragon 765G powered smartphone has received over 4 million ‘Notify Me’ requests. This is is the highest number of requests for a smartphone that has been recorded on Amazon India yet. Until no it opened pre-orders for the Nord along with invitations to the AR event as well and both were sold out within hours.
OnePlus Nord has a 6.44-inch FHD+ (1,080×2,400 pixels) Fluid AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh rate. The phone has a quad rear camera where they got the main sensor from the OnePlus 8, which means the 48MP Sony IMX586 main sensor with an f/1.75 lens. The phone will also have an 8MP secondary sensor with an f/2.25 ultra-wide-angle lens that has a field of view (FoV) of 119 degrees, a 2MP macro shooter, and a 5MP depth shooter – both with an f/2.4 aperture.
The Nightscape modes are as vibrant as the OnePlus 8. There are dual-cameras at front housed in a punch hole cut. The setup comprises a 32MP Sony IMX616 primary sensor with an f/2.45 lens and an 8MP secondary sensor with an f/2.45 ultra-wide-angle lens that has an FoV of 105 degrees.
OnePlus Nord will run on Oxygen OS based on Android 10. It features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G SoC that also supports 5G connectivity along with Adreno 620 GPU. The phone will come in three different types of storage variants where it will be available up to 12GB of LPDDR4x RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.1 internal storage. The phone will be powered by a 4,115mAh battery that supports Warp Charge 30T fast charging.
Undoubtedly OnePlus Nord is the most smartphone in India now and users must be flocking to place pre-orders from the day after tomorrow. In India, it starts at Rs. 24,999 and its first sale on 4th August for 8GB + 128GB and 12GB + 256GB variants while for the 6GB + 64GB variant you have to wait a bit longer until September. Visit: https://amzn.to/2WW3esJ
Intel has been a major silicon giant in the business for decades now. It has huge market capitalization as they are in a variety of businesses but obviously their core business has always been its CPUs.
After its recent confession that they will take another year to actually land their 7nm based CPUs, their arch-rival AMD saw a huge boost to its share value, with AMD shares gaining as much as 16% on NASDAQ. Both Intel’s woes and share gains seem to positive news for AMD.
This year the Red team has stormed the laptop market with its efficient Ryzen 4000 ‘H’ series gaming and ‘U’ series processors. Recently they launched their 7nm based Renoir APUs for desktop and actually will continue to deliver 7nm x86 chips in 2020 and 2021 with their Zen 3 chips.
Zen 3 is supposed to be much more exciting as it promises a new architecture and IPC gains of about 15%. We will see the Ryzen 4000 desktop processors and EPYC Milan server processors with this architecture in Q4 this year.
This will solidify it’s stand in the market for AMD as its gaining popularity in the server market as well because Google Cloud chose AMD over Intel for their confidential VMs. AMD will be delivering a huge amount of chips as the new PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles will be based out of Zen 2 based CPU and Navi GPUs.
So if you go by the stock market, the figures should be soaring more towards AMD in the coming months. AMD has gained more partners in the form of OEMs and we are seeing great products but still, some have been partiality to Intel, which should change in the coming days.
Desktop CPU market has been phenomenal to AMD as they continue their supremacy while Intel has lost its trust to its biggest client Apple recently, which indeed is a big setback for the company. Still, Intel remains positive of their 10nm based products but it will likely be the choice of customers which will defy the success of these two silicon giants.
Amazon’s FBA has been a major boost when it comes to the delivery time and the number of products it can store. Off late, the demand for e-commerce has overtaken the offline market which certainly requires more and more space for storage & processing.
So, Amazon India is expanding by adding 10 new Fulfillment Centers (FC) and expansion of 7 existing buildings. With this expansion, Amazon.in will have more than 60 FCs in 15 states, with a total storage capacity of over 32 million cubic feet.
Yes, it’s an insane amount of storage with a floor area of more than 8 million square feet – more than the land size of 100 football fields, housing millions of items. These new FCs include the specialized network of FCs for large appliances and furniture categories and Receive Centers.
Our investment in infrastructure and technology is to provide sellers with closer access to Amazon’s fulfillment offerings, customers with faster delivery on a wider selection of products and help ancillary businesses such as packaging, transportation and logistics
Akhil Saxena, VP, Customer Fulfilment Operations, APAC, MENA & LATAM, Amazon India
All of these FCs will be set up in proper cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Patna, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ludhiana, and Ahmedabad. This will help Amazon to deliver a smarter, faster, and more consistent experience for its customers and sellers across the country.
Amazon promises that these new fulfillment centers will be operational before the festive season, enabling customers to stay safe at home and have what they need to be delivered at their doorstep.
I am happy to see the continued investment Amazon is making to infrastructure in India on a regular basis. I am also glad that it is providing market access to our MSME’s, craftsmen and artisans.
Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog
With Fulfilment By Amazon (FBA), sellers across India send their products to Amazon’s FCs. This reduces the strain of any seller and helps faster delivery which we often refer to as Prime delivery.
So, once an order is placed, Amazon picks, packs & ships the order to the customer, provides customer service, and manages returns on behalf of the sellers. A lot of sellers are benefitting from FBA as Amazon manages the stock for them and looks after the products as well, becomes very handy during sales.
Seagate, the American data storage company, is bringing four types of storage devices to India and will launch during the Amazon Prime Days scheduled on 6th and 7th August. There is a normal Hard Drive, a Solid State Drive (SSD) named Ultra Touch, a gaming SSD FireCuda, and a desktop drive. Though there are no details about the hard drive and desktop drive currently, but details of the SSD and gaming drive are out. Here what the company is bringing to us.
Seagate Ultra Touch SSD:
The Ultra Touch SSD (external) is coming with an ultra-small and lightweight get-up that makes it ultra-portable. The company says it is “made for Android”. That means, along with Mac and Windows, it is also compatible with Android. So, you can now take backups of your Android device’s videos, photos, and more. The SSD is capable of transferring files in seconds at a speed of 400MB per second.
In the case of backup, you will get a convenient experience for the array of easy-to-use software tools by Seagate. One-click backup on-demand, automatic hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedule backups, and mirror folder – all facilities are coming in your hand.
Additionally, you will get bot the USB Type-C and USB 3.0 compatibility. The USB 3.0 cable and the Type-C adapter will be there in the box.
The Ultra Touch portable SSD is coming in two color variants – black and white, and the storage capacity will be up to 1TB. The price is not disclosed yet. Check the product out, the link is given.
Gamers, this is for you. With this FireCuda SSD, you can perform tasks like installing games, booting up, loading levels, auto-saving, and more at a blazing-fast speed of up to 2,000 MB/s. The reason behind – it uses NVMe SSD performance to optimize USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 technology.
Apart from the speed, you will get the universal compatibility as you can connect this gaming SSD through a Type-C to Type-C cable as well as a Type-C to USB 3.0 cable. Customizable RGB LEDs are also there which you can explore with the Toolkit software.
The FireCuda Gaming SSD has three variants as per the storage capacity. The options are 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB. No matter which one you buy, the company is giving 5 years of warranty, so that you get mental satisfaction. The way link to the Amazon wall for this SSD is given below.
Amazon Prime Day is coming next month. It’s scheduled on 6th and 7th August, hope you know. During this Prime Days, you will get great deals, blockbuster entertainments, and over 300 new launches from different top brands of different fields, even from the Smartphone section.
There are not many but few smartphones are launching from few brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Tecno. These smartphones will only be available for Prime members. Amazon also promises 40+ launches in mobiles and accessories segments.
1. Xiaomi
This smartphone will be launched in the Prime Day sale the exact date is not revealed by the brand. The phone will have a triple rear camera and drop notch display. This illustrated image may not resemble the original smartphone but we can have an idea of any smartphone.
There will be another special launch on 6th August. The Redmi Note 9 will have a new Scarlet Red colour option and will be available on that day at only Rs.11,999 for the Prime members only.
2. Oppo and Tecno
Oppo and Tecno will also launch a new smartphone and Amazon has not revealed any kind of information about these devices yet. So, we have to wait a little longer to know exactly what the exact products will be.
3. OnePlus Nord
OnePlus Nord was launched a few days ago in India but there is yet some time for its first sale and the company has already decided to reveal it first batch of Nord devices with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage variant in Blue Marble colour option on 6th August. This variant is one of the three variants of the device and only one single colour option will be available at the first sale. This variant is priced at Rs.29,999 and is the top variant among all.
4. Samsung Galaxy M31s
Samsung will launch the Galaxy M31s on July 30 at 12PM via Amazon. The first sale might be on one of the Prime days.
5. Honor 9A
Honor 9A will launch on 31st July and similarly the first sale might be exclusive for the Prime members.
